[email protected] wrote:
To be honest, I never run the test suites for any package, not even glibc, gcc or binutils. I think the test suites are highly overrated, the times I ran a test suite there were so many failures. If you look up the failures, you'll notice some tests are destined to fail and don't indicate a problem with your compiled version. The only tests I run are the four or five sanity checks in the book to check what linker is used, those tests are really good and are the only ones I deem necessary.
I do all the checks before a release as a sanity check. I also think the checks are more important for new users or running on non x86* systems.
For experienced users, the checks can be omitted.
The problem is: what can you conclude after testing when out of the 500 tests, 48 fail, what does that mean?
If it is significantly different from what we have in the book, then something is wrong and should probably be investigated.
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